This story today from Sara Carter is really interesting because CTH outlined the foundation of this back in January of 2017. According to an article published today by Sara Carter her congressional sources have told her of an investigation into former ODNI James Clapper and his leaking of “intelligence information” to CNN in an orchestrated effort to damage the incoming Trump administration.

Sara Carter – Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper allegedly leaked information to CNN early last year regarding the classified briefings given to then President-Elect Donald Trump and President Barrack Obama on the salacious dossier claiming the Russians had compromising information on the president-elect, according to government sources, who noted the evidence of the leak was collected during the House Intelligence Committee’s Russia investigation. (keep reading)

Here’s why it’s particularly interesting. Back in January of 2017, we noted a series of events between James Clapper (ODNI), John Brennan (CIA) and Jake Tapper (CNN) that appeared transparently obvious about creating a specific narrative. CTH Timeline:

In essence the week beginning January 10th, 2017 was the origin of the vast ‘Muh Russia’ conspiracy/collusion narrative against the incoming administration. The CNN report pushed by Jake Tapper was also the distribution of leaked information James Clapper and John Brennan. This false narrative was specifically the origin of the “collusion” angle.

James Clapper appeared nervous and playing CYA when he released a statement trying to cover-up his leaking of information to CNN. Remember this?

Yeah, ODNI James Clapper was protesting his innocence a little too much. The narrative was noted almost immediately:

January 15th, 2017 “[…]Four political operatives at CNN (Jake Tapper, Jim Scuitto, Evan Perez and Carl Bernstein), colluded with two highly politicized top level Obama administration intelligence officials, ODNI John Brennan and CIA Director John Brennan, under the auspices of leaks from “anonymous senior intelligence officials” – on the construct of Russian narrative to undermine the incoming presidency of Donald Trump.

After being called onto the carpet, and doused in sunlight for their endeavors, CNN has been rabid in their attempts to obfuscate the construct of the intentional hit job and defend the indefensible.

CNN has spent the better part of every single broadcast for the past six days trying to justify their role in carrying out the synergistic political objectives of the politicized intelligence community and media propaganda. They have failed.

[…] according to government sources Clapper, who is not mentioned in the report released Monday, had spoken to CNN at roughly the same time Jake Tapper broke the first story regarding the briefings conducted by senior intelligence officials with Trump and Obama on the dossier. Tapper’s story, which published in January 2017, created a snowball effect of allegations in the media that Trump’s campaign had allegedly colluded with the Russians in the 2016 election and that Russia had compromising material on Trump, sources with knowledge of the investigation concluded.

Clapper was one of four senior Obama administration officials to brief Obama and Trump on the dossier in December 2016. FBI Director James Comey, former CIA Director John Brennan and National Security Administration Director Mike Rogers were also present at the December briefings.

Clapper nor Tapper could be immediately reached for comment.

The dossier, which was compiled by former British spy Christopher Steele, at the behest of embattled research firm Fusion GPS, was already being shopped around by Steele to journalists in Washington as early as the summer of 2016, according to reports. At the time, journalists who had heard of the dossier were reluctant to publish the findings because of its unverified content.

“[Clapper] gave the dossier legs and news agencies began to publish its contents because it had now become official news…”

But it was when CNN published the first report that Trump and Obama had been briefed the dossier’s findings that other news agencies began to report on it. The committee found evidence that Clapper, who is now a contributor at CNN, contacted CNN shortly before the story was published by Tapper, Evan Perez, and Jim Sciutto. The story detailed the briefings given to Trump by the senior officials on the contents of the dossier and “gave the dossier legs and news agencies began to publish its contents because it had now become official news,” one congressional source told this reporter. Shortly after CNN published the report, Buzzfeed made the decision to post the entire 35-page dossier and referenced the CNN report in its decision to publish it, according to the website. (read more)

These top food chain folks can lie in hearing, under oath, to FBI/DOJ, leakers, colluding with other countries and nothing happened. Whole fake msm and DC knows still they walk free. Hillary bashing PTrump in India and blaming everyone. I want to see her in prison just for 24 hrs.

as much as I would love to trust Sessions….we have open defiance here, from mayors to governors ignoring Federal law, we have elections we are losing because people so hate President Trump based on lies and false accusations from the media, we have 7 million dollars spent on a lie, where Mueller is still going strong. Our Country more divided than ever. People NOT respecting this President and you know why because seditious acts have been allowed to stand, because treason has been allowed to stand, because the guilty walk around free lying slandering, dividing, excusing NOT charged…and this sickens us, this is dividing us/this nation. where MAGA is not allowed to proceed because of obstruction. Nominees not going through because of obstruction. You have the democrats as deficient and as evil-getting away with crimes and lies and slander, you have protests out of hand that are absolutely vile. AND you want us to trust Sessions, gee wiz I would just love to, but this Country is in serious problems and what CA * Chicago/IL, and NYC are doing, they should have been arrested, if we did such things we would have been-heck we would have been assassinated, and what are the Democrats doing to our President-the lack of respect their words are heinous yet they accuse him of being brash,…… Sorry I am one of his supporters that lost my daughter (she hates me because I voted for Trump and has cut ALL ties with me) because of my support for President Trump, I am one that went to rallies and received a brutal push back, I have been waiting for 2 years for this to lessen up-and yet even with this clearance of “Russian Collusion” what do we have but CNN stating” it is not worth the toilet paper it is printed on” So when are we going to (excuse language here) shyte or get off the pot, let us just go to full blown civil war at this point, I am sick of waiting, my heart hurts for this nation, that we are so darn corrupt now! Yes I would just love to trust Sessions….but….

Sorry to read of your family discord. Your personal experience is definitely an issue of concern as we “wait patiently”. I don’t feel you are a fair weather fan at all. You are justifiable in your personal angst. My brother lives in LA and before this election, he was never very politically vocal/active. This time….wowsie. He does live in the belly of the beast however. As a family, we tend not to discuss political things. I guess a bit easier since the rest of us are here in Georgia. Mostly the emails that go back and forth are about cars and other interests like that. Cars are valid (not talking about weather) since dad and other brother are car folks.

I noted on the other Clapper post from yesterday that I think March and April are the months for action…..if there will be action as May/June have 29 primaries. Action needs to take place then for effect on primaries. Once primary season starts, MSM will make sure Oxygen is sucked out of the room.

I completely sympathize with your family situation. I will never understand how my own adult children have grown up to be left leaning, liberal Dems who hate Trump. The only answer is obviously that they went to state run public school indoctrination centers. It’s not that they learned how to think, they learned what to think about politics. They don’t hate me but sometimes I become enraged at their stupidity. They are good people in every respect, but are politically illiterate.

As far as Jeff Sessions- it always seems too little too late. Trump must have a reason for keeping him on. I guess we should have faith.

What I am most worried about is that Pres. Trump has made some mighty powerful enemies who are not afraid to go as far as getting rid of their opponents with “extreme prejudice” if you get my drift.

I pray for POTUS every day, that God will give him strength and keep him safe. He is a mighty warrior and I can’t imagine where we’d be without him. Just looking at those videos of Hillary Rotten and Choom Boy make me sick to my stomach.

I live in the belly of the beast, and was pressed to retire early because of my (suspected) conservative views.
My family is NeverTrump but although we’ve had some screamfests, no one has cut me off. Just AWFUL that Leftists/NeverTrumps are so vicious and narrow-minded.

I realize that it’s hard to wait for justice to prevail but investigations have to be perfect. It’s not like the Trump admin will get the benefit of the doubt, especially after years of pretending the Good Guys are the guilty ones.

I thought just like you until Sundance revealed that Sessions was running a prosecutorial investigation parallel to the IGs investigation but had to keep it secret even from Trump. So, it appears that Sleepy Jeff is actually a fu*^$#g piranha and one of the few guys in Washington who can keep his mouth shut.

Dennis Montgomery handed over the proof to Comey and his FBI counsel James Baker…the evidence, when one document sat atop the next measured 30 miles high …

Montgomery was granted limited immunity by onetime head judge of the FISA court Judge Royce Lamberth in exchange for those documents. Montgomery also told that Mueller’s FBI supplied the computers for the illegal surveillance system.

And thrice afterwards. These enemies of the American Experiment can count on a corrupt political/media machine to spin for them, but it ain’t working no more.

Every investigation launched by tbe Left is ensnaring only, the Left.

I believe that Mueller’s dirty game as a Special Criminal is itself a great crime, an obstruction of the search for truth and justice for the many crimes that he and his cronies perpetrated, and still are.

I see this in there as well, the part where he said, “even before the IC became aware of it.”

.@TheLastRefuge2 This: When he is referencing (note 'private security') "document which was widely circulated in recent months…" & then goes onto say, "even before the IC became aware of it." Liars always stumble when they can't remember their previous lies.

They declared certain information “States Secrets.” The truth is not germaine in that case, …covering up the crime is most important to protect Obama, Brennan and Clapper

… Comey took possession of the evidence. Past FISA Court head Judge Lamberth awarded CIA Whistleblower Dennis Montgomery limited immunity in exchange for the documents that came from Brennan’s and Clapper’s illegal surveillance system, known as “The Hammer” All Docs were given to Coneys FBI and his counsel James Baker.

The Docs were initially dropped by a Federal Judge (one assumes accidentally) in a court case.

Within hours of publishing “Whistleblower Tapes…” Wikileaks dropped CIA Vault 7 proving the existence of the illegal surveillance system known as The Hammer. (Hamr)… that was exposed in those docs. Montgomery confirmed. Nunes apprised. …The scheme puts the weaponized IRS in context.

56 sorties of WMD moved out of Iraq in Boeing 727’s and 747’s into Syria…run by the Russian military and KGB/SVR spymaster Yevgeny Primakov ….along with SADDAM’s nuclear mastermind Dr. Jafar Dhia Jafar…who with his brother and their family company Gulftainer were awarded a 35 year lease to cargo container operations at Port Canaveral by the Obama administration..right beside our nuclear Trident submarines…

Refrigerated 18 wheelers were also used …driven by Russians ..out of uniform to avoid satellite detection…Practice runs were routine…See “What Could Possibly Go Wrong” at the Center for Security Policy under their occasional papers

Yeah, the Left traditionally has HATED military and CIA, considering them baby killers and drone killers of innocents and topplers of this-time-it’ll-work Socialist gummints in Central America … all the while lionizing to sainthood such anti-CIA traitors and leakers like Snowden and Bradley Manning.

Just portray these new CIA Dems as baby killers and storm troopers of the military-industrial complex. Use the Left’s own portrayals.

The top end of this Trump administration better stay scrupulously legal, even if that isn’t the most efficient way to do business, no shortcuts, because if any of the Democrat cronies in the bureaucracy or Hillary campaign go to jail they will be the #1 targets of the next Democrat Administration, even if that’s 7 years away.

Dream on. They own the bureaucracy, the media, academia, the grade school teachers (most horrific of all, that), students, local government, a lot of the supposedly independent judiciary, crony Wall St, the CoC and at least half the electorate. You better do some more maths on that.

Why no justice on the leaking? I thought Rosenstein and Sessions were going to step up the investigations, and hence, prosecutions on leaking or is was it another a PR interview? These Democrat officials are being allowed to run rampant for too long.

Yeh… I’m getting tired of the old ‘5 d chess’ excuse. Now its just blatant that they are sitting on hands. Time will pass… and they are hoping it will blow over. The lack of prosecution when evidence is laying on the floor like a landed whale – indicates a sad future I feel.

All throughout this piece and the supporting docs and video, it’s clear that the dossier was initially being played as sort of a running joke. The media, which now can’t find a single thing related to Trump not worth some sort of clickbait -going so far as to publish every single thing fed to them by Adam Schiff, without the least bit of scrutiny- Would Not Touch It. It was literally sarin at that time. Clapper says it was not an Intelligence product.

And yet,

It was used 3 months prior and quarterly 3 more times To Get A Freakin Warrant To Spy On Trump!

There is only one way these black hats could expect to get away with this: an unfailingly complicit media.

The reason they get away with it is because we don’t do anything about it. When they concoct a rumor about Trump, they immediately begin an investigation. When it is disclosed to be a hoax, they keep on going. Our Asst. AG helps them, signs off on a false warrant application. Nothing happens to him. He eggs on Mueller like nothing happened. Sessions gives him the green light and an attaboy. He continues to focus on MS-13 and sanctuary cities. The real colluders run free. Meanwhiile, Mueller is investigating the President’s daughter, son-in-law, Erik Prince, Manafort, the President — all on issues having nothing to do with his mandate.

Not only does he say it wasn’t an intelligence product (note his making sure he states, “private security company” – but he then goes onto say, “before the IC was even aware of it.” Right there he is lying about knowing of the document, let alone using it in the FISA Court.

In his January 11, 2017 letter above Clapper writes that the IC hasn’t made any judgment that the information in the dossier is reliable. Then on October 25, 2017 on CNN Clapper states that “But at the same time, some of the substantive content, not all of it, but some of the substantive content of the dossier, we were able to corroborate in our Intelligence Community assessment which from other sources in which we had very high confidence to it.” So what happened between January and October of 2017 that lead the IC to assess that some of the “substantive content” of the dossier was corroborated with “high confidence” sources? He resigned as head of the DNI when obama’s term ended. Someone in the IC must have told him that. Who was it and when was he told? Anyone know?

You might not like this.
Even the good guys like Nunes and Jordan are establishment, like SCOTUS is establishment and all ex military generals and all intel agency elites are establishment .
By that, I mean those people value the stability and credibility of govt Institutions as a continuing necessity over most other things, even if an Institution is “temporarily” corrupt.

For example, to trash and reconstruct the FBI, for that is what the evidence reveals should happen, is to be absolutely avoided for them. They calculate the credibility disaster and the disorder that would create is far more important than justice for the elites. I happen to disagree.
You’ll see this in no prosecutions of the higher ups and a rash of voluntary retirements and “we’ll do better.”
I told you you wouldn’t like it.

They still “don’t know” who gained access to Kenneth Trentadue’s cell in the maximum security federal transfer facility in Oklahoma so that the perpetrators could torture Trentadue to death, crushing his skull and cutting his throat, while claiming Trentadue hanged himself in his cell. Maximum security and cameras all over the place and they have no clue who entered an inmate’s cell and murdered him at their leisure.

It was reported by Timothy McVeigh that Kenneth Trentadue was murdered because he resembled Richard Lee Guthrie, a member of the fake Aryan Republican Army, an “army” of federal and SPLC informants. Guthrie, when he finally was apprehended, wound up hanging himself in his cell. Strange.

Still no real investigation, since not finding the perpetrators seems impossible given the location of the torture/murder.

Look, “leaking” prosecutions are the J walking end of this, any of the big boys that have their 20 years in jail charges hanging will be offered the odd leaking charge instead…. to be treated by the Court as a misdemeanor. It’s DC, no-one takes leaking seriously except the boy scouts from out of town.

Bob Woodward is and always has been a Deep State mouthpiece. He wasn’t “calling out” Clapper and Brennan; he was helping to cover their asses, while *appearing* to “call them out” in his inimitable mealy-mouthed way. Look at what he actually says about them:

WOODWARD: “Those intelligence chiefs, who are the best we’ve had, who are terrific and have done great work, made a mistake here…”

No, they didn’t “make a mistake.” The used 100-percent textbook CIA psyops to smear Trump, knowing *full well* that once the damage was done only a miraculous and more-than-Herculean effort could ever undo, if that was even possible. And here we are over a year later. The damage was incalculable.

As Ashton Gray has correctly pointed out in “Watergate: The Hoax”: “The CIA ~always~ plays both sides of a game. Always.”

All Woodward was doing was playing his “side” of the Punch ‘n’ Judy show, playing “good cop” to “bad cop”—while, of course, praising the “bad cops.”

His statement that it was a “garbage document” was nothing but a penetrating glimpse into the obvious—and it didn’t matter at all because THE INTENDED DAMAGE WAS DONE.

With all sincere due respect to Sundance and to Donald Trump, anybody who gets lulled by Woodward is eye-to-eye with a slowly waving coiled viper.

A couple of comments:
I continually see people who are worried that time is running out and these criminals will get off scott-free.

So first the clock on the STATUTE of LIMITATIONS STOPS with an indictment.

[…]The phrase “statute of limitations” refers to the time period within which formal criminal charges must be brought after a crime has been committed…. Therefore, in most instances, prosecutions are barred if the defendant can show that there was no indictment or other formal charge filed within the time period dictated by the statute of limitations….

Second, since October of last year a YUGE number of SEALED indictments have been laid before the courts.
⚖️ In 22 days in November — 4,289 sealed indictments
⚖️ In the next month, December the number MORE THAN DOUBLED to over 9000, an increase of over 4,700.
⚖️ By January 28, 2018 there were 13,605 sealed indictments. Again an increase of over 4,600 in a month.
⚖️ And another treeper reported over 18,500 sealed cases were filed as of March 1.

My interpretation is that AG Sessions went after the small fry in November and December. ON December 21, President Trump issued the ‘Executive Order Blocking the Property of Persons Involved in Serious Human Rights Abuse or Corruption.’ In January Sessions went after the middlemen and NOW he is finally ready to go after the big guys.

So I think they have most of the evidence and are now ready to go for the last bits using a Grand Jury.

“[…] The task force included the FBI, the Treasury and Justice Departments, the CIA, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, and the National Security Agency (NSA).

It was set up after the director of the CIA, John Brennan, received a recording of a conversation about money from the Kremlin going into Trump’s campaign coffers, the BBC’s Paul Wood reported. The recording was apparently passed to the CIA by the intelligence agency of one of the Baltic States.

On October 15, the task force was reportedly granted a warrant by a judge in the FISA court — named after the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act — to intercept the electronic records from two Russian banks that may have been implicated in the money transfer, a senior intelligence official told the BBC. Trump was not named in the warrant, but three of his associates were the subject of the inquiry.[…]”

Apr. 13, 2017“[…]Brennan reportedly established a counterintelligence task force, which included the FBI and the National Security Agency. That summer, Robert Hannigan, then the chief of the GCHQ, passed Brennan more material related to conversations Trump associates had with suspected or known Russian agents,[…]” — http://www.businessinsider.com/british-spy-agency-trump-russia-ties-2017-4

May 23, 2017“[…]Trump fired Comey earlier this month, just over nine months into the FBI’s probe of Russia’s hacking and disinformation campaigns that targeted Democrats during the election. That probe began in earnest when Robert Hannigan, then the chief of Britain’s Government Communications Headquarters, passed Brennan material related to conversations Trump associates had with suspected or known Russian agents in late 2015 and early 2016,….
Brennan was so concerned about the intercepted communications that he established a counterintelligence task force, which included the FBI and the National Security Agency. (Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper testified earlier this month that those communications had been picked up and handed over to US agencies, but he could not elaborate due to the “sensitive” nature of the intelligence.)[…]” — http://www.businessinsider.com/john-brennan-russia-trump-collusion-testimony-2017-5
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***Natasha Bertrand

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She is an alumna of Vassar College and the London School of Economics.

I’m confused. I thought Obama and Trump were both briefed on the dossier in early January 2017, shortly before it was published by Buzzfeed, and that it was Comey alone who briefed Trump on the dossier after a larger intel briefing. Did Comey also tell Trump that Hillary and the DNC commissioned and paid for the dossier? It would be interesting to know when Trump first learned of Hillary’s involvement with the dossier.

This is absolutely no surprise. Clapper and Brennan leaking directly to CNN was an outright condition of employment of these two by CNN, after the resigned from the government. It would not be surprising there were signing bonuses attached to the stories generated by these leaks. Also, these two legally walked away from the government with tons of Obama declassified materials for future use, which I believe is the “sources” in most CNN stories since.